Usually means: Urinate, often referring to children.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. tinkle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tinkle: Merriam-Webster
  3. tinkle, tinkle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tinkle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tinkle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Tinkle, tinkle: Wordnik
  7. tinkle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Tinkle, tinkle: Wiktionary
  9. tinkle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tinkle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tinkle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tinkle: Dictionary.com
  13. tinkle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tinkle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tinkle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tinkle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tinkle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tinkle: Rhymezone
  19. Tinkle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tinkle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tinkle: FreeDictionary.org
  22. tinkle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tinkle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. tinkle: Vocabulary.com

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  1. tinkle: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. tinkle: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tinkle, tinkle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tinkle: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to tinkle.
verb:  (transitive) To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.
verb:  To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To urinate.
noun:  A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
noun:  (UK, informal) A telephone call.
noun:  (informal, euphemistic) An act of urination.
noun:  (informal, euphemistic) Urine.
noun:  A surname.

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